If you want to do it programmatically without .Net then see the answers to 
my question "Inserting newlines into XML document" asked on 3/20/2008 (or 
maybe 3/19/2008 depending on timezone, but probably not).




"Adam Byrne" <misterbyrne-iamafraid@o...> wrote in message 
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>I was scared away by a warning on Cooktop's website that it will save 
>changes without asking!  Anyway, I found a freeware application called 
>"firstobject XML Editor" that does the trick.  As an added bonus, it's only 
>900K and doesn't require installation.
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> "Balaji" <msbalaji@i...> wrote in message 
> news:22f11515-6476-4d8e-8e55-8a056d4e0426@d......
> On Apr 1, 1:34 am, "Adam Byrne" <misterbyrne-iamafr...@ofspam-
> yahoo.ie> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have to deal with Xml files which mainly consist of nodes which contain 
>> a
>> large number of attributes. I can manage to format these Xml files to
>> nicely indent each node, but all the attributes remain on the same
>> (extremely long) line as the node.
>>
>> Does anyone know of a way I can automatically format an Xml document so 
>> that
>> each attribute appears on its own line? I don't really mind how it can be
>> achieved once it's not by hand (e.g. any programming language, any 
>> library,
>> an XSLT, a freeware, shareware, or expensive application - Visual Studio
>> .NET 2008?) - any ideas??
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>> -adam
>
> Hi,
>
> Try with cooktop. it's freeware.
>
> http://xmlcooktop.com/
>
> Regards,
> Balaji. M
>
>